Biography

Michael L. Chang, MD, is a board-certified pediatric infectious diseases physician and serves as the physician co-director of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship at McGovern Medical School and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. He leads initiatives focused on process improvement, health care quality, and patient safety. His primary research explores the use of human-centered design to enhance process-improvement strategies and medical education, with the goal of building more effective, patient-centered health care systems.

Education

Doctor of Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical School/Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 1999-2003
Pediatric Residency
UT Southwestern Medical School/Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 2003-2006
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship
UT Southwestern Medical School/Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 2007-2010

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests

Process improvement

Health care quality

Patient safety

Research Interests

His primary research interest is the application of human-centered design to process improvement and medical education.

 

 

Publications

Leach K, Ellsworth M, Ostrosky L, Bell C, Masters K, Calhoun J, Ferguson L, Distefano SM, Chang ML. Evaluation of a telethermographic system for temperature screening at a large tertiary-care referral hospital during the corona virus disease 2019 (covid-2019) pandemic. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.1254.

Ellsworth M, Chang ML, Ostrosky-Zeichner L. Mind the Gap: The Hospital Breakroom. American Journal of Infection Control. 2020.

Chong H, Al Hammoud R, Chang ML. Presumptive Dipylidium caninum infection in a toddler. Hindawi. 2020.

Alamarat Z, Perez N, Wootton S, Kamdar A, Smith K, Heresi G, Chang ML. Murine Typhus Outbreak Presenting at Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children During SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2020. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002947.

Tyungu D, McCormick D, Lau CT, Chang ML, Murphy J, Hotez PJ, Mejia R, Pollack H. Toxacara species environmental contamination in public spaces in New York City.2019.

Al Hammoud R, Murphy JR, Chang ML. Plasmodium vivax Infection in Multiple Family Members in Texas, USA. Case Rep Infect Dis. 2019;2019:8568710. doi: 10.1155/2019/8568710. PubMed PMID: 31281691; PMCID: PMC6590619.